What is a Perma-Beginner?
A Perma-Beginner is someone who refuses to take a job at level 8 or 10, and continue leveling as a beginner. They're often called superbeginners, since their skills are beyond and above regular beginners.
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Reasons to be a Perma Beginner.
Being jobless sucks, in real life or otherwise, and MapleStory is no different. However, there is something nice about not having a job, and that's not having any responsibilities either. No one cares if your n00b does not make it to level 70, nor do they expect it. Taxis cost only at
maximum 120 mesos, which makes a perma-beginner a great way to deliver goods to guild members and offsite auction winners. Since you don't lose experience when you die, you are free to explore Victoria Island without fear of death. Go ahead and fight the Crimson Balrog or Mushmom at level 15, just don't expect to win.
It's also difficult to be the most powerful people on your server, but fairly easy to reach the top 10 on any server as a beginner, just make it to around level 35 on any servers.
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Reasons not to be a Perma Beginner.
I don't recommend a perma beginner as your main character, just as something to do when you're bored of your main character. They level slowly, they're the lowest power of any class, and if you like melee combat, warriors are a much better choice, since beginners are limited to only one-on-one combat, with no mob control skills.
They don't have much of a choice in armor or weapons, with no armor(excluding capes and helmets) after level 31. They also have less inventory space, which makes them less ideal as a storage box then a warrior.
Anytime you spend with your Beginner is time you could have spent with your
main character.
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Three kinds of Perma Beginners
There are three kinds of Perma Beginners: Islanders, Snail Crushers and Pros. Islanders stay on Maple Island and attempt to be the most powerful character there.
Pro: Very easy to become the strongest character on Maple Island
Con: Not much to do on Maple Island, so it gets really boring after level 25.
Snail Crushers prefer to master a low-level monster, rather than train towards higher ones.
Pro: Other characters awe at your skills as you ks in your undies.
Con: Can get very boring fighting the same monster over and over again.
Pros actually play the beginner class as a serous class. They attempt to compete with everyone, a tough choice.
Pro: You have the best chance with this build to reach level 70.
Con: You're much weaker then every other class, so the training is very slow and unrewarding.
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So, you want to be an Islander?
Well, here's the perfect roll you want.
Str X
Dex 4
Int 4
Luk X
Unlike off the Island, all you need is 4 accuracy to hit everything, which you can obtain with 4 luk and 4 dex. Having more in dex is fine, but Int should be 4.
There are two standard builds for Islanders. The first would maximize your chances of one hit killing a monster by using strength and dex. With the standard 10% mastery, strength adds to your maximum damage while dex adds to your minimum damage. At some point, raising your strength will not yield a better chance of one hit killing a monster. The calculations supplied by
Shoax(using a 38 attack purse)
For best chance of 1HKO Orange Mushroom: Cap at 205 STR, rest into DEX
For best chance of 2HKO Orange Mushroom: Cap at 100 STR, rest into DEX
For best chance of 3HKO Orange Mushroom: Cap at 65 STR, rest into DEX
The 2nd build would be to add to luk instead of dex, to take advantage of more avoid. Since a miss prevents knockback, it's possible that your beginner will be able to train faster.
Training:
I recommend getting the razor as soon as you can afford it. Its range is pretty poor, but it's an ultimate shroom and snail killer. Keep the first weapon for the Orange Mushrooms, until you find a high attack sword. Around level 7 ~ 8, begin focusing on obtaining the drops you need to be the best-dressed and equipped character on maple island.
(Side note for the jobbed classes, once you get mastery, strength adds more to your minimum attack then dex does. However, with 10% mastery, dex adds more to your minimum attack than strength)
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Weapons
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All Levels.
Sword - Snail and Red Snail (Look for w.atk 19)
Hand Ax - Shroom (Look for w.atk 19)
Sky Snowboard - Orange Mushroom and Red Snail (Limited time only)
Yellow Valentine Rose - All monsters.
Level 10:
Double Ax - Orange Mushroom(limited time only)
Level 12:
Red Valentine Rose - All Monsters(limited time only)
Level 15:
Leather Purse - Red Snail
Level 24:
White Valentine Rose - All monsters(limited time only)
Level 48:
Blue Valentine Rose - All monsters(limted time only)(Only for Godly Islanders)
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Armor
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Level 0:
Red Mini Skirt (F) - Snail
Yellow Cotton Shirt(F) - Red Snail
White UnderShirt (M) - Snail
UnderShirt (M) - Blue Snail
Leather Sandals - Red Snail
Level 5:
Green Headband - Snail
Blue ClamDigger's - Shroom
Level 11:
Red-Striped T-Shirt (F) - Blue Snail
Blue One-lined T-Shirt (M) - Blue Snail
Gray Thick Sweat Pants (M) - Blue Snail
White Gomushin (White Korean Rubber Shoes) - Orange Mushroom
(The White Gomushin is like haste for n00bs)
Level 15:
Amethyst Earrings - Red Snail
Level 16:
Ice Jeans - Snail and Shroom
Usable Items that can be used with the limited number of Island Items:
Scroll for Helmet for Def. (10%) - Snail
Scroll for Shoes for Jump (10%) - Orange Mushroom
Scroll for Helmet for Def. (60%) - Orange Mushroom
You can also barter a brown or green skullcap or a red, yellow, green or blue headband from the pre-jobbers doing the "Bring this letter to Lucas" quest. If you made it to level 10, you can also party and train pre-jobbers in exchange for these items.
I'd recommend some training areas, but I guarantee by level 15, you will have been over the Island many, many times and know it all by heart.
Congratulations, you're on your way to becoming king of the Island.
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So, you want to be a Snail Crusher?
Snail Crushers rule the n00bs. A snail crusher chooses to master a certain monster, such as squishes, orange mushrooms, snails or boars. You may choose to rule the squishy tree, or Land of the Wild Boar or whatever map(s) you choose.
The build is very simple, add dex until you can hit the monster you want to fight, add strength and dex until you can one hit kill them, then add luk so you can 100% avoid them.(scrolls and buff items maybe used to archive your goal). Fight in your undies! The build is basically the same as the Islander, you just get off the Island, I recommend leaving the Island at level 16 ~ 20, because that's when you begin to become too powerful for it or leave when you're ready to face your real adversary.
Orange mushroom spawns at the Dangerous Forest are really nice on the Island, much better than the slime tree. If everyone could stay to level 20, they would.
There's no real training for this build, because it's up to you which goal you want to hit.
This website has an estimated chance to hit calculator. This calculation uses *accuracy*, not dex, which can be found by clicking Abilities and then clicking details. You get 4 accuracy for every 5 dex you add and 1 accuracy for every 2 luk you add.
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So, you want to be a ProBeginner?
Pros are built with the goal of hitting the high levels, although it's a lofty attempt. High-level beginners are rare; everyone wants to be a friend of a 30 level n00b, when they're not accusing you of cheating.
Str X
Dex X
Int 4
Luk 4
Is the perfect build, having more in luk won't hurt, but int is mostly useless, because AP is better off spent somewher else.
Originally, I thought the warrior 2x dex per level build was good enough for a beginner, but I was mistaken, I apologies for anyone who followed that advice, because it's a wrong fit for a beginner. My new suggestion is to just obtain exactly the acc needed to hit your target 100%, and plan head to reach that goal. Then dump everything into strength you need for dex, because beginners require the extra strength to make up for our lack of skills.
I'm going to start a new trend in warrior guides, I'm just going to list acc needed to hit what I recommend for you to train on, and I'll leave it up to the reader on how to obtain the needed acc, whither by scrolling your equipment, using acc adding equipment like the red headband, or the pig illustrated, by using sniper pots (+5 acc) or pills (+10 acc), by add dex. (5 dex = 4 acc) or by adding luk (2 luk = 1 acc)
Again do *not* gradually build up your acc by adding dex, because this makes training even slower. Put everything into dex at the last possible level to reach your next accuracy goal for your next training area. You'll be training on the same thing for many levels, so being able to hit it for more damage is more important than being able to hit things you won't train on for a few
levels. Planning your training route beforehand is required, but part of the fun of a hard build like perma-beginner is trying to find the optimal path that will lead you to level 70+.
Unless otherwise noted, the recommend acc is to hit 100%, although many warriors suggest that 50% ~ 75% is good enough, so it's possible to train on these things with less acc then listed, just use the acc calculator to make sure you're going to hit above 50%.
Here's a guess at training.
Level 1-10 Snails on Maple Island
==== Level 0 Acc 1
Level 8-25 Orange Mushrooms at Maple Island
Level 9-25 Orange Mushrooms at Dangerous Forest on Maple Island (Good spawn)
Level 9 ~ 25 Orange Mushrooms at Small Field of Flowers on Maple Island
Level 10 -25 Orange Mushrooms at Henesey Hunting Grounds I
Level 10 - 25 Hidden Street: The Mushroom Garden
==== Level 8 Acc 4
Level 10-Forever Slime Tree. (You're not a n00b if you haven't played
in the slime tree)
==== Level 10 Acc 4
Level 20-30 Green Mushrooms at Henesey Hunting Grounds I
Level 20-30 Green Mushrooms at Tree Dungeons around Ellinia.
==== Level 20 Acc 18
Level 22-30 Green and Horned Mushrooms at Tree Dungeons around Ellinia.
Level 22-40 Horned Mushrooms in the Ant Tunnel
==== Level 22 Acc 26
Level 40 - 50 Evil Eyes in the Ant Tunnel
==== Level 40 Acc 37
Level 40 - 50 Wild Boars on the maps east of Perion, where the spawn is slower.
Or Land of the Wild Boars II, if you feel lucky.
==== Level 40 Acc 29
Level 40 - 50 Ratz
==== Level 40 Acc 48
Level 40 - 50 Dirty Ratz
==== Level 40 Acc 55
Level 40 - 50 Jr. Lioner, Jr. Grupin, Jr. Cellion
==== Level 40 Acc 55
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Aqua Road Monsters
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Level 30 - 40 Cico
==== Level 30 Acc 29
Level 30 - 40 Krappi
==== Level 30 Acc 29
Level 30 - 40 Cicle
==== Level 30 Acc 33
Level 40 - 50 Mask Fish (Recommended for their good drops)
==== Level 40 Acc 51
Level 40 - 50 Bubblefish (Recommended for their good drops)
==== Level 40 Acc 37
I'd like to mention here, that there's also the Zakum PQ, which gives
out exp for completing it.
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Ultimate beginner / some beginner ranting.
Since the n00b is basically a warrior without skills, so it's possible to do the ultimate fighter build on him. Gloves, Shoes, Capes and Overall Armor can be +dex scrolled, so it's possible to dump all skill points into str and rely on scrolled armors to take the place of your missing dex. This would give a beginner enough strength to overpower all other classes's raw damage.
Another possibility is to put points in your skill points in luk instead of dex in the proBeginner. Having a lot of monsters missing may make up for the lack of armor past level 31.
Another strategy is Instead of relying on avoid, a beginner may attempt to get the max amount of jump and speed. This would allow a beginner to manually avoid monsters, instead of relying on avoid. The catch is that monsters often spawn right on top of you, which is pretty difficult to manually avoid, but for all other cases, it's more reliable than hoping the game mechanics will do it for you.
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Jobbed Beginners.
A job beginner is somewhat of a vague category. The basic idea is to create a beginner-style character, but give him a job so he can use many of the skills along with his toy weapons. This is different then just a unique build, because a unique build looks at a class and figures out a new way of modifying it while a job beginner tweaks a beginner's build around a class. Below are
common job beginners.
Woodsman
A woodsman is a bowman that takes advantage of *The Blessing of Amazon* and *Focus* to gain +36 free accuracy, allowing for a beginner with more strength(and therefore more raw damage) then a normal build. In the second job, a woodsman can use *Power Knock Back* with a bow to do damage, instead of their toy weapons, since the Maple weapons can be equipped without a dex requirement. Many Woodsmen who focuses on Power Knock Back prefers to be called
a "Bow Whacker" rather then a woodsman.
Standard build:
Blessing of Amazon -> Focus -> whatever, since you need to burn AP
Brigand
A Brigand is a bandit that takes advantage of the often unused bandit skills, like Max Dark Sight, Max Steal and Max Disorder as well as haste and Nimble Body. Both Max Disorder and Max Steal are very good PQ skills, which makes a Brigand a good PQ support character.
Standard Build:
Max Nimble Body -> Max Disorder -> Max Disorder -> 1 point in Whatever
Max Haste -> Max Steal -> Whatever.
Str Mage aka Mace mage aka Palladian aka GuardMage
I'm very hesitate to include the strength mage as a jobbed beginner, because in truth, a strength mage is a previously supported class, with it's mace for mages and Blue Doros Robe which gives +3 strength. However, I included it because Nexon dropped the support for this class by failing to give mages mace mastery and mace booster in the 2nd job, as well as failing to make the 50+ level maces available to magicians. After about level 50, a Str mage must use the same
beginner toy weapons and armor a normal beginner must use, which is why I consider them jobbed beginners.
Of all the jobbed beginners, a str mage is probably the best off. In the first job they get Magic Guard and Magic Armor. And they are free to pick which class in the 2nd job. An I/L mage has the ability to freeze a monster and attack them. A F/P mage can poison a monster and use their
weapons to finish them off. A Cleric gets heal, which is pretty weak for attacking monsters without the needed int, but since healing yourself and your party is % based and not magic attack based, it's very useful. All of them get teleport, which most warriors would give their left nut for.
Standard Build:
Magic Armor -> Magic Guard -> MP Recovery(5)-> Improving Max MP -> MP recovery
I/L:
Ice Beam -> Teleport -> Slow -> Whatever
F/P:
Poison -> Teleport -> Slow -> Whatever
Cleric:
Heal -> Teleport > Bless -> Invincible -> Whatever
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Party Questing
After meeting 2Hearts1Lov3 and having a minor discussion with Dreamnoob; I now fully recommend PQ'ing for all perma-beginners who are experienced PQ'ers.
I originally thought it would be tough for a beginner to find a PQ, but I forgot that one of the coolest things you can do is party with a subern00b, and most PQ'ers know it! Secondly, most beginner have no problem leaving the boss stages,since beginner do not have a chance with Alishar, and only a minor chance with the King Slime. This means the beginner is free to check and find tracks, as well as scout out the area for a rush. That makes beginner a value to
the party.
The reason I suggest this route for experienced PQ'ers, is because as a beginner, you'll drag your party down during battle heavy stages, so you need to make up for it by doing quick non-battle stages.(sometimes half the PQ is stage 8!)
Here's the accuracy needed to hit some of the PQ monsters.
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Level 24-30 Party Quest at Kerning.
Hit Ligators 100%
==== Level 24 Acc 47
==== Level 26 Acc 45
==== Level 28 Acc 42
==== Level 30 Acc 39
Hit Ligators 50%
==== Level 24 Acc 36
==== Level 26 Acc 34
==== Level 28 Acc 32
==== Level 30 Acc 30
Slime King 100%
==== Level 24 Acc 58
==== Level 26 Acc 55
==== Level 28 Acc 53
==== Level 30 Acc 50
Slime King 50%
==== Level 24 Acc 44
==== Level 26 Acc 42
==== Level 28 Acc 40
==== Level 30 Acc 38
Level 40-50 Party Quest at Ludibrium.
Ratz
==== Level 40 Acc 48
Ratz 50%
==== Level 40 Acc 36
Black Ratz
==== Level 40 Acc 51
Black Ratz 50%
==== Level 40 Acc 39
Bloctopus
==== Level 40 Acc 55
Bloctopus 50%
==== Level 40 Acc 42
Dark Eyes (The mean looking eyes which are weak to physical attacks)
==== Level 40 Acc 73
==== Level 43 Acc 66
Dark Eyes 50%
==== Level 40 Acc 55
==== Level 43 Acc 50
Alishar
==== Level 40 Run away!(151)
==== Level 50 Run away!(116)
Alishar(50%)
==== Level 40 Run away!(114)
==== Level 50 Run away!(88)
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Armor and Weapons.
My personal suggestion is to head towards blunt weapons. They are the cheapest to scroll and you'll need to scroll if you want to make it to the later levels. Plus, there's just something cool about ks jobbed Maplers with your purse. Otherwise, you're pretty limited in your choices. Just
choose what you like, because n00bs are style over substance.
The Snowboards and Roses are also nice.
Some notable weapons and armors I've found: The plunger (level 25), which is dropped from the Jr. Lioner, because it's maximum possible attack, is 49 without scrolling. That's much higher than most class's 30 level weapons and much cheaper to scroll, too.
The Fish Spear, which is dropped from bubbling. Avoid the one from the Aqua road quest, it's pretty weak.
The Pigs Illustrated, which gives a +10 accuracy.
The Maple Sword is a level 35 weapon with gives +20 to acc.
The Maple Soul Singer is a level 43 weapon that gives +30 acc A godly Dex scrolled Sauna robe is easy-ish to find, since other classes like them as well. If not, 1 10% and 9 100% dex scroll Sauna robe is a good option.
In MapleGlobal, a funded beginner can scroll an American flag and get that extra +10 strength as well as a weapon that has the potetional of being better then the average 25 level weapons.
In MapleGlobal, the Valentine Roses are pretty good weapons, especially since polearm scrolls are fairly cheap.
There are two frozen tunas, the first is a level 10 weapon which can be equipped by anyone, while the level 20 weapon is for beginners only.
MapleSEA has the Sake Bottle, which has more attack then any average weapon
in the game.
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Scrolling.
Just like a normal class's 6x, you'll be 25+ for a very long time, so you benefit from scrolling everything.
I'm only listing the ones available on MapleGlobal, so it's possible your version of MapleStory has additional scrolls. The ones marked with a *#* can be purchased, otherwise they must be found or bought on the FM.
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This is a list of scrolls that improve Dex
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Scroll for Cape for Dex 100% = +1 Dex
Scroll for Cape for Dex 60% = + 2 Dex
Scroll for Cape for Dex 10% = + 3 Dex
*2* *3* Scroll for Gloves for Dex 100% = +1 Acc
Scroll for Gloves for Dex 60% = +2 Acc, +1 Dex
Scroll for Gloves for Dex 10% = +5 Acc, +3 Dex , +1 Avoid
*1* Scroll for Overall for Dex 100% = +1 to Dex
Scroll for Overall for Dex 60% = +1 Acc, +2 Dex
Scroll for Overall for Dex 10% = +3 Acc , +5 Dex, +1 Speed
Scroll for Shoes for Dex 100% = *No Dex! Misleading name!* +1 Avoid
Scroll for Shoes for Dex 60% = +1 Acc, +2 Avoid
Scroll for Shoes for Dex 10% = +3 Acc, +5 Avoid, +1 Speed
Scroll for Shoes for Jump 60% = +2 Jump, +1 Dex
Scroll for Shoes for Jump 10% = +5 Jump, +3 Dex, +1 Speed
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I recommend scrolling your helmet for HP as well
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*1* *2*Scroll for Helmet for HP 100% = +5 HP
Scroll for Helmet for HP 60% = +10 HP
Scroll for Helmet for HP 10% = +30 HP
*1* Toolcas from Swamp of Despair II
*2* Barn from the 14 floor of Orbis Tower
*3* Vega from the 44 floor of EoS Tower
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Skills and possible training
N00bs got Skillz! Beginner skills are here to let pre-mages and pre-thieves, who have really poor damage, have a chance to complete the quests on Maple Island. Here's a list of the skills you can choose from.
Recover
Recover HP over a period of 30 seconds - usable only once every ten minutes
Level 1 - Use 10 MP to heal 24 HP.
Level 2 - Use 20 MP to heal 48 HP.
Level 3 - Use 30 MP to heal 72 HP.
Three Snails
Throw a snail shell to attack an enemy from far away.
Level 1 - Use 10 MP to throw a snail shell for 10 damage
Level 2 - Use 15 MP to throw a blue snail shell for 25 damage
Level 3 - Use 20 MP to throw a red snail shell for 40 damage
Agility Tickle
Suddenly move quickly. Usable once every fifteen minutes.
Level 1 - Use 10 MP to gain 10 speed for 4 seconds.
Level 2 - Use 15 MP to gain 15 speed for 8 seconds.
Level 3 - Use 30 MP to gain 20 speed for 12 seconds.
And now a real description, since those ones are pretty sparse.
Recover is good before you need MP. Every 10 minutes, it gives you 72 HP, which is about one pot, and 10 minutes between usage gives a beginner enough time to recharge MP naturally. However, when a person needs MP for their main skills, this one is pointless.
Agility Tickle is often called beginner haste, but it's better described as beginner flash jump. It's not here to aid in training, but to use the extra speed to escape from a bad situation and position yourself into a better one.
Three Snails is probably the best skill in the 3. 10, 25 or 40 damage. Most people prefer only putting two points in this skill, since it's much easier to find blue snails then red ones. This skill was nerfed, it originally always hit, but now it only hits based on your own accuracy.
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Conclusion
This route is not for everyone, in fact, it's really just for goofing off and trying to be different. Don't be afraid to not follow a build, explore places you shouldn't have been, get owned by the various creatures that inhabit MapleStory and have a good time. Perma-Beginner is all about style over substance, to be the guy with a baseball cap and a snowboard competing against
someone with a sword and armor
It's a chance to play a character that can lose nothing in MapleStory, one that doesn't belong in the Maple world, and one that is not afraid to step outside the boat during the trip between Orbis and Ellinia. One that will never care about flashily moves.
All Mario has is jump and attack, and he gets to rescue the princess! If it's good enough for him, it's good enough for you.
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Acknowledgements
I'd like to thank myself, Diet Pepsi for keeping me awake at night and Korea.
Thank you Dreamnoob for emailing me.
Thank you BeginOfTime, for the guide to Aqua road monsters, as well as advice outside of MapleGlobal.
Thank you Island King for telling how to fix my Island guide.
If you hate my guide, I highly recommend Shoax's guide; it's the encyclopedia of perma-beginners. I don't have the attention span to read it, but I've heard it was pretty good.
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Author.
OresPlz is on Bera, as a 1 handed swordsman.
Contact me at binomine AT gmail. Or via GoogleTalk with the same name if you have important corrections or suggestions to this guide,
I always accept meaningful criticism.
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Sunday, 20 December 2009
MapleStory Tips For Beginners
Introduction
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This is a general FAQ to help you settle into the Maple Story world. It answers alot of FAQs that newbies are always asking in the game. And it contains explanations and tips on things you'll need to know for lv 1-20
I played Maple Story for about 5 months, but I've quit because I'm so busy with uni work and other commitments. I had a lot of fun and this guide should still be relevant for quite some time. I hope you find it useful.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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0 GET THE RIGHT START
1 CREATING YOUR CHARACTER
1.1 Statistics
2 PLAYING THE GAME
2.1 Basic Controls
2.2 First Few Steps
2.3 Items
2.4 Hunting
3 VICTORIA ISLAND
3.1 First Job Advancement
4 PARTIES
4.1 Creating Parties
4.2 Party Experience
5 GENERAL TIPS
5.1 Sleepywood, Ant Tunnel, Ossyria And Florina Beach
5.2 Hunting Effectively
5.3 Return Scrolls
5.4 Fame
5.5 Trading
6 QUEST ADVICE
6.1 Beginners
6.2 Level 15+
7 CLOSING
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Frequently Asked Questions Section
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How Do You Make A Girl Char? 1.0
Which Stats For Job Advancement? 1.1
Which Stats For Later? 1.1
Where Did You Get That Hat? (Maple Island) 2.2
Where Did You Get That Weapon? (Maple Island) 2.2
What Are Ores For? 2.3
How Much Are Screws? 2.3
How Do You Get Out Of Here? (VIP Taxi) 3.1
Where Do You Go? (for job advancement) 3.1
Can Someone Spare 3k? (weapons and armour) 3.1
How Should I Spend My Skill Points? 3.1
How Do You Use Skills? 3.1
How Do You Throw Stars? 3.1
What Is Fame For? 5.4
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0. GET THE RIGHT START
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To get the right start you have to think ahead, decide which job you will take before creating your character. To make this FAQ compact, job descriptions are not included. Refer to the official Maple Story website for job information and skills.
Warriors will level fast as Beginners, but in later levels (15-27 approx)
Warriors level up slower than other jobs.
Thieves will level normally as Beginners, but in later levels (15-27 approx)
Thieves level-up slower than other jobs (unless they have good stars).
Bowmen will level normally as Beginners.
Magicians will level slowly as Beginners, but after becoming a Magician and learning a few skills (claw lv 9 for example) they will level quite fast. Magicians are quite powerful in the first and most of the second job, however in the third job, I've heard that the other classes are stronger
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1. YOUR CHARACTER
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For each account, three characters can be made in each server. These characters share a common storage (or bank). And so items and mesos (money) can be safely transferred from character to character, if the characters are in the same server.
Each server has the same maps and monsters, but sometimes they have different events (Check the website for notices). Unfortunately a character created in one server cannot exist in another server. However each server usually has 20 Channels each, and your character can easily switch from channel to channel within the same server.
If you want to delete a character, you have to remember the birthday that you put in you sign-up. To change your password, you need your last name.
How Do You Make A Girl Char?
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Your character will be the same gender as what you put in your sign-up. It can't be changed.
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1.1 Statistics
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TIP - It is important to know which stats to increase. Otherwise, you may find that you don't have the required statistics to wear your armour or weapons in the HIGHER LEVELS. I made this mistake and wasn't able to wear my proper armour at level 20 because I didn't have enough STR as a Warrior. And at level 30 I didn't have enough LUK as a Bandit to wear my dagger.
Which Stats For Job Advancement?
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Warrior level 10 35 STR
Thief level 10 25 DEX
Bowman level 10 25 DEX
Magician level 8 20 INT
Which Stats For Later?
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Warrior STR and DEX (more STR)
Thief LUK and DEX (more LUK) **
Bowman DEX and STR (much more DEX)
Magician INT and LUK (much more INT)
Each job only needs to apply Ability Points (AP) to only two types of Abilities as shown above. For example, if you are a Warrior, don't place any AP into LUK or INT.
Magicians, if you keep missing monsters, do not put any AP into DEX,put it into INT to increase your accuracy.
Thieves do not need strength, unless they are STR Bandits. LUK Bandits use daggers that require no STR, while STR Bandits use daggers that require a small amount of STR. If you are unsure, you can put 10 points into STR by level 20 and see if you like being a STR Bandit.
AP can also be used to increase HP and MP. I suggest not doing this. HP and MP will increase with every level-up without you adding AP to it.
Rolling The Stats Die
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TIP - Before creating your character, make sure it has good stats. If it hasn't got stats that you are pleased with, you can click on the red die to get new stats.
Good stats would have 4 or 5 in the abilities that your job doesn't need. But if you can't get good stats, it's OK. But since you can roll the die as many times as you like, you may as well try a few times.
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2 PLAYING THE GAME
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2.1 Basic controls
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Switching Channels Press Menu, Change Channels Chat Box Make sure you press the little '+' sign at the bottom centre of your screen to see what has been said more clearly Healing Find a safe place and stand still for awhile Recovering MP MP regenerates automatically. Pick up items Press Z World Map Press W Inventory Press I Statistics (AP) Press S
For more controls click on your Key Settings at the bottom right of screen. My favourite control is F5.
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2.2 First Few Steps
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In the first screen, you will see two Non-Player Characters (NPCs). Talk to Heena, she will explain BASIC MOVEMENT. She will ask you to do something, say YES.
This is a quest, you don't have to complete it, but if you do, you will be rewarded. In this case, the reward will be 1 experience point. It never hurts to say YES to a quest so always say YES.
If you accepted the quest, don't press up at the portal (the place with the glowing light from the ground). Talk to Sera, she will give you a mirror. Then go talk to Heena, she will take you to the next screen/map.
In the 2nd screen, a creepy looking guy called Roger will take away some of your health! Press I to open your Inventory, click the USE tab, then double-click the Apple. Talk to Roger again, he'll give you 3 Red Potions. You can HotKey the potions by dragging them from your Inventory into one of your Quick Slot keys (bottom right corner of your screen).
In the 3rd screen there's another simple quest. In the 4th screen talk to Peter, he'll give you some experience.
Where Did You Get That Hat?
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Soon you will see Maria, she'll give you an easy quest, if you complete her quest she'll give you a hat (a bandana or skullcap).
Where Did You Get That Weapon?
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Talk to Biggs in South Perry, You'll need 30 Blue Snail Shells and 10 Orange Mushroom Caps. If you complete this quest, you will receive a lv 5 Razor, or a lv 8 Fruits Dagger.
For Orange Mushroom Caps, go to the map to the right side of Amherst. At the top centre of this map you will be able to kill the Orange Mushrooms easily by standing on the centre platform, where you can attack the Mushrooms without being hit by them. Magicians can skip this quest if it is too hard.
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2.3 Items
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Pick up everything especially mesos, ores, potions, armor and weapons. Items such as Snail Shells, Mushroom Spores and Mushroom Caps can be sold to any store for mesos. Arrows are worth 0 mesos to stores, so you may as well pick them up and give them to an archer later when you reach Victoria Island.
What Are Ores For?
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Ores are used in creating Jewels or metal Plates, which are used to create items later in the game. Keep all the ores you find and talk to the NPCs in Victoria Island to find out which ores you will need later to make items. All other ores you may either keep or sell to other players.
Picking Up Items
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When you kill a monster, YOU are the only person who can pick up the items that the monster drops after it dies. If you don't pick up the items after about 10 seconds, ANYBODY may pick up the items. And if you drop an item from your Inventory, anybody can pick it up and you shouldn't expect to get it back.
When two or more people help kill a monster, usually the person who killed it the most is allowed to pick up the items. The other person won't be able to pick up the item unless it has been left there for about 10 seconds.
Looting
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When you see someone busily killing monsters and not picking up their items for a long time, after about 10 seconds, anyone can pick up those items, looting is when someone else picks up those items.
Looting is ok when a person is only interested in gaining exp. and not money. If you never see them picking up items, even after you have picked up a few of their items, then there is no problem. If you start picking up some items and the person killing, also begins picking up the items, then you should stop, and let them get their items.
Once, a Beginner accused me of looting from her when she helped me kill a monster. I didn't loot from her, the item belonged to me. If she had killed the monster completely, then I wouldn't have been able to pick up the item so soon after the monster died, if the item had belonged to her... NOOB
How Much Are Screws? (as of July 2005)
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These prices are from what I have seen in Scania, they are the usual amount other players in Victoria Island are willing to pay for these items. NOTE: The prices may change.
Ores 1k (1000 mesos).
Steel Ores 1k, sometimes 1.5k or 2k.
Diamond Ores 7k sometimes 3k sometimes 10k
Gold Ores 10k
Black Crystal Ores (BC) 13k sometimes 15k
Screws 1.5 - 2k each
Leather 150 - 200 mesos each
Item Library
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The Item Library on the official websites don't really cut it. For a detailed item, monster, quest and map library, visit www.hidden-street.net
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2.4 Hunting
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Beginners that plan to become Magicians should hunt in the Snail Hunting Ground I or II on Maple island, this map is full of Green and Blue Snails. Probably best to stay here until you reach level 8. You can do Maria's Hat quest and then come back to this map to level up. I suggest not doing Biggs quest because it will take a long time to collect the items for someone so physically weak. But of course if you really want to do it, no problem.
If you find it hard to level-up, keep killing those Green and Blue Snails.
Monsters In Maple Island
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Name HP EXP. Advice
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Green Snails 8 3 Great for Beginners and Magicians
Blue Snails 15 4 Great for Everyone
Shroom 20 5 Great for Everyone
Red Snails 45 8 Beginner Magicians shouldn't waste
time on these
Orange Mushrooms 80 15 These are tough for Beginners,
you'll kill 4 Blue Snails faster
for MORE exp. AND THEY MOVE FAST.
You'll find a lot of these to the
right of Amherst
Other Easy Monsters In Victoria Island
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Stump 65 8 Easier to just kill 2 Blue Snails,
(unless you can kill in 3-5 shots
it's not worth going for)
Slime 50 10 They move fast
Pig 75 15 They move fast
Dark stump 250 18 They move slow
Ribbon Pig 120 20 They move fast
Kill Stealing
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Kill Stealing (KS or ksing) is when someone weak is trying to kill a monster to gain exp. and a stronger player will come and kill it and steal exp. It's not such a problem in Maple Island because everyone is a Beginner, so this is a good place to train.
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3. VICTORIA ISLAND
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You can leave Maple Island anytime you like. You'll need 150 mesos for the ship ride from South Perry. When you leave you won't be able to come back.
Maple Island is a nice place to level-up. I suggest leveling here or near Lith Harbour until you are ready for your job advancement. Places near Henesys are also good for Beginners to train.
I suggest not exploring the other towns while you are a Beginner and a newbie, go level up and get a job first, then go exploring. (Beginners wanting to become Magicians will not train as fast near Perion, Ellinia or Kerning, unless they stick to Green snails, because Slimes(50HP) and
Stumps(65HP) take forever to kill when you are doing 1-3 damage).
When you die, if you have a job, you'll lose about 5-10% exp. and you'll be transported to the nearest Town. If you have your Mini Map extended you'll be able to see an icon. The icon represents the nearest town.
Talk to every NPC that you see, this way you will probably find out if they are useful to you. For example some NPCs synthesize items, refine ores, store things, process wood, create screws, create arrows or give quests.
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WARNING TO BEGINNERS IN LITH HARBOUR and ELLINIA
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How Do You Get Out Of Here? What Is This Place?
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Do not take a ride in the black VIP TAXI to the Ant Tunnel. You will end up in a place not for Beginners at all. When you die (There's no way you won't die), you'll find yourself in Sleepywood, the town in the Dungeon. To get out of here, you'll have to buy a Return Scroll to Lith Harbour from someone for 500 - 1000 meso. Even if someone is nice enough to give you a scroll for free, you'll have wasted 1000 mesos on the VIP TAXI ... DONT TAKE THE TAXI. I don't know why they allow Beginners to have a discount on this Taxi, it just means a lot of confusion.
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3.1 First Job Advancement: Where Do You Go?
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After you have trained to the required level, talk to the ticket guy in Lith Harbour or a white Taxi in another town, he will take you to the town you need to go to, for 80 - 120 mesos (very cheap discount price for Beginners only).
---Warriors--- at Perion, go to the very top of the map and enter the portal talk to the NPC Dances with Balrog.
---Thieves--- at Kerning City, enter the Jazz Bar in the centre of the map, go down the ladder and talk to the NPC Dark Road.
---Bowmen--- at Henesys, near the centre of the map, enter the park and go to the far right and enter the building to talk to the NPC Athena Pierce.
---Magicians--- at Ellinia, go to the very top and enter the portal and talk to the NPC Grendel the Really Old.
Buying Weapons And Clothes: Can Someone Spare 3k?
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When you make your job advancement, you should buy new armour in your home town. By this level, you will probably not have enough mesos to buy everything you want, so deal with it :/ you have a job, go earn the money!
Firstly buy a new weapon, then topwear and bottomwear, if you have enough mesos, buy a hat and then shoes. If you can't afford everything, don't worry, you really only need the new weapon. If you can't afford that, you probably didn't pick up all the mesos that your monsters dropped did you? Well in that case, you've just got to fight some more monsters with what you have until you have enough mesos.
Don't Beg. You are a Beginner (or were), of course you're poor! You have to work at your job to become rich. This game can be challenging, but it's not too hard, so don't be LAZY go hunt some monsters to find some money and gain exp. And while you're at it meet some players and have fun.
How Should I Spend My Skill Points?
TIP - By the time you reach your second job advancement, you will not have received enough Skill Points (SP) to master all the skills available to you. So, you'll have to spend those points wisely. Find an In-Depth FAQ for your job to find out how to spend your SP.
How Do You Use Skills?
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Press K to spend your skill point. If you use your Skill Point on a skill that uses MP, drag the Icon into one of your Hot Keys, or open your Key Settings and drag it into there.
How Do You Throw Stars?
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You must be a Thief and you need to wear a Claw. The first claw is called a Garnier and can be bought from the Kerning City Weapon Store. Buy some Subi Throwing stars from the guy selling armour. Now you can throw stars using your attack button.
If you are too close to a monster, you will punch it instead of throwing a star at it (I find this annoying). Punching will do very little damage.
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4. PARTIES
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4.1 Creating Parties
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Once you get a job, you will be able to create a party.
- Press R
- click on the 'Party' tab
- click 'Create'
- Right-Click on a person
- Select 'View Info'
- Click 'Invite Party' once
There can be up to 6 people in a party. To leave your party, click Leave. You will not be able to invite someone who is already in a party. They will have to leave their party before joining yours.
Party Chat
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When you are in a party, press 2 to talk to members in you party. The chat text will appear in pink. You will be able to talk to members that are in different maps or channels. Press 1 to talk to everyone again.
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4.2 Party Experience
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Generally:
- Experience is shared among all party members that are in the same map.
- If you kill a monster you will get more exp. than the other party members will get for that kill.
- Higher level members will receive more exp than the lower level members.
In parties, mesos are shared but items are not. Items can be picked up by anyone in a party.
Pan2005: Mesos In A Party - For 2 Members --> 60% For Collector & 40% For Other Member. For more than 2, the ratio will be a bit different, but still, the Collector will be getting most.
One problem with parties is who gets to keep that rare piece of armour worth 50k? The person who killed the monster that dropped it? Sure, but what if they helped you kill it? I was once in a party where I completely killed the monster that dropped the rare item and I managed to pick up the item too, but the other party member begged me if they could have it. I personally don't like parties, but they are useful sometimes. You don't need to join parties to make friends though, just start talking to people.
Party Experience Example 1
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Let’s say we have a 2-person party with 2 lv 10 players. Slimes give 10 exp. if you kill them completely by yourself. In a party if you kill a Slime, you'll get something like 6 exp. while the other member in the party will get 4 exp.
Party Experience Example 2
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Another 2-person party, 1 person lv 35 the other lv 8. If the lv 35 kills a Green Mushroom, they will get the entire 26 exp. points and the lv 8 will get 0 exp. If the lv 35 kills a Slime, they get 9 exp. and the lv 8 will get 1 exp.
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5. GENERAL TIPS
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5.1 Sleepywood, Ant Tunnel, Ossyria And Florina Beach
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Sleepywood is in the Dungeon, the easiest way is to walk from Henesys. But I recommend being level 17-20 before visiting. Make sure you have a Return Scroll to Henesys or some other town before you go, just incase you find the place too tough for you to get out again. Sleepywood Return Scrolls can be bought in the Sauna in the Hotel in Sleepywood.
To walk to Sleepywood from Henesys, take the top right portal at Henesys to get onto Warning Street. Keep traveling right, and avoid the dangerous monsters at the bottom of those pits. Eventually you'll find Luke the Security Guy, take the portal that he's standing near. You'll enter a Forest, here the top portal will take you towards Kerning City and Perion, while the middle portal will be Sleepywood. Don't take the bottom portal unless you are lv 25+ because there are Curse Eyes here. Also, the bottom portal is one of those tricky portals, like a Pig Beach, where the only way to get back, is to travel through the map and reach another portal.
Ant Tunnel is just right of Sleepywood. The monsters are tough here for low level players.
Ossyria is another place and the website suggests that you be lv 35, this is a good guideline. But if you want to visit out of curiosity I recommend lv 25+, but the monsters will be tough! You can go there from Ellinia, it cost 5k and make sure you have 5k to get back. Bring lots of potions to go exploring. Since MP pots are slightly cheaper in Ellinia, don't forget to stock-up before leaving to Ossy.
Tip from lilkrndude146: The armour and weapon shop in El Nath (a town in Ossyria) is expensive for some items. You'll probably do better buying the items off other players back in Victoria Island. Hopefully by the time you reach the levels to be buying this stuff, you'll have some experience in buying and trading items off other players (at sensible prices).
Florina Beach is a little island with tough monsters. It cost 1k to get there from Lith Harbour. You'll need 1k to get back.
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5.2 Hunting Effectively
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If you like fighting in crowded places where the monsters re-spawn quickly, fight monsters that only need 1-2 shots to kill (maybe 3). If you take any longer you'll become surrounded by too many monsters.
If you like less crowded places, where there's only you or one other person, there will be less monsters. This will mean more walking, but you can kill the monsters slower, so go for monsters that die in 2-4 shots. - Warriors and Bandit Thieves may like to kill monsters that take up to 6 shots.
To level-up faster, use potions (pots). Less waiting will mean more killing and more exp. Make sure you pick up all your items and mesos if you can't afford pots. On the other hand, if you're using pots up like crazy, and you don't seem to be making a profit, you're fighting the wrong monsters (or you're just crap :P) - MP pots are slightly cheaper in Ellinia.
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5.3 Return Scrolls: Selling All Town Scrolls 1k
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Return Scrolls, are great and are much cheaper than a Taxi (unless you're still a Beginner). After getting your first job, and acquiring some money, walk around Victoria Island and visit all the towns and buy a Return scroll from each town. On the way, you can explore, try to find hidden portals and kill a few new monsters.
Return Scrolls cost 500 mesos at shops. And they can be used in almost all maps, so they are more convenient than taxis.
Taxis are not available in Sleepywood. So buy a Return Scroll before visiting, otherwise you may have to pay 1k to buy one off someone. I used to always be in Sleepywood selling Return Scrolls for 1k =) .
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5.4 Fame: What Is Fame For?
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Fame is used for higher levels. There is a quest at level 30 that requires 10 fame, and some high-level armour requires a certain amount of fame to wear. If you're poor, don't bother trying to buy fame, you don't need it yet. Save your money for armour or potions.
from Pan2005: The kinds of equipment that use fame are usually black or are called Dark 'something'.
You can't fame someone until you're lv 15. You can only use your fame once a day. And you can only fame the same person once a month.
Higher-level players like to buy fame. They may offer you 1 - 6k for your fame. If you need money, sell your fame. Currently the normal price for fame is 5k. People may also offer items for fame such as 20 leathers or 4 ores.
To fame someone for items or money, right-click them and select 'View Info', then press 'Request Trade'. Keep the Info box open. When they accept your trade, and agree to give you the money or items for your fame, you click the Orange Up Arrow to increase their fame, while the trade box is still open. Then they will give you your money. Press the Orange 'Trade' button to accept their money or items
Fame nor LUK has nothing to do with rare item drops.
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5.5 Trading
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To request a trade with someone right-click them and View Info, click on 'Request Trade'.
If someone requests a Trade with you, be nice and say 'Hi' or 'Hello'. Responding with 'Yes?' or 'What?' just seems rude to me.
Good places to buy or sell items are at towns. The best town for this is Perion. Visit Perion Channel 1 for the biggest market, here it may be hard to click on people, so instead type '/trade username' to trade with someone.
Visit Perion Channel 1 and just watch everybody trade. Sometimes you'll see the prices of various items. Occasionally these prices will be over the top. But just watch for a few minutes while you regain your health and you will learn alot about trading and prices. It's not a bad idea to do this every now and again after you reach lv 30. If Perion Channel 1 is too full, try
Channel 2.
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6 QUEST ADVICE
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After you've done these quests, there are plenty more which are only accessible by reaching a certain level. Visit www.maplesea.com for more quests (shows more quests than mapleglobal).
Strangely, all these quests are pretty hard for the level that you can begin them at, except John's quest. For all the others, you'll have to level-up alot more to finish them without help. You'll probably be lv 25+ when you finish all of them... :/
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6.1 Quests For Beginners
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Fixing Blackbull's House
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Talk to Blackbull in Perion.
Items Needed: 30 Branches, 50 Firewoods.
Prize: lv 15 Steel Shield (most times) or a lv 25 Triangular Shield.
Branches will be easy to get from Stumps. Firewood can be found from Axe Stumps and Dark Axe Stumps. Don't go for the Dark Axe Stumps they have 550 HP. If you're a warrior, try this quest at lv 14, so that you have a shield for lv 15. All other classes, don't worry about this quest until you can kill Axe Stumps easily.
The shields can only be used by Warriors. If you're not a warrior, you can sell the lv 15 shield to a shop for 3k. The lv 25 shield should be sold to a warrior because it can't be bought from any store in Victoria Island.
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6.2 Quests For Level 15+
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Maya and the Weird Medicine
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Talk to Maya in the Mushroom House in Henesys
Needed: 20 Octo Legs, 50 Squishy Liquids, 50 Leaves, 40 Charms of Undead
Prize: level 25 Brown Bamboo Hat
Since you can't use the prize until lv 25, you can take your time.
You'll need to travel a lot for this quest, Maya will want you to get Medicine by talking to Teo in Lith Harbour, He'll tell you to go see someone else and so on ... :/ Octos are found near Kerning City, Leaves are dropped by Dark Stumps found near Perion, Squishy Liquid dropped by Slimes. Charms of Undead are dropped by Undead Mushrooms found in the Ant Tunnel in the Dungeon, they are not easy to kill by low-level players.
Luke the Security Guy
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Talk to Luke at the Entrance to the Dungeon from Henesys.
Items Needed: 1 Bowl of Salad, 10 Stirge Wings, 100 Jr. Necki Skins
Prize: 1 Refined Jewel at random (Diamond if you're lucky)
This quest is tough! There is no time limit on quests. Most Magicians, Thieves, Bowmen can't hit the Jr. Necki until lv 27+. Warriors will have to wait even longer.
Jr Neckis are little green snakes, found in the Subway, Sewer, and in some parts of the Dungeon. Stirges are purple bats found in the Subway and Deep Ant Tunnel. Bowl of Salad can be bought (A Use Item) from the 24Hr Shop in the Deep Ant Tunnel.
John's Pink Flower Basket
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Talk to John in Lith Harbour
Items Needed: at least 10 Pink Viola Flowers
Prize: 30 Screws
This is the first of MANY jumping quests. If you can become good at this quest, you'll be able to do all the other jumping quests. So have patience and practice a lot, when you get tired, take a break, fight some monsters, then practice some more. Pink Viola's can't be traded.
Buy a couple of Return Scrolls to Lith Harbour at Lith Harbour. Go to Sleepywood, then buy some Sleepywood Return Scrolls from the Sauna and talk to the Mysterious Statue. After getting the flowers (double-click on them), scroll back to Lith, give the flowers to John. If you didn't get 10 flowers, scroll back to Sleepywood and do it again. NOTE: buying the Scrolls is optional, you can walk if you're too tight!
After you complete the quest, you can go to the Mysterious Statue and do the jumping quest again and again. Each time you reach the flowers you'll randomly receive 2 mineral ores (no gold).
When you reach lv 30, you'll no longer be able to receive the 2 ores from the Forest of Patience Stages 1 & 2. You'll have to do John's lv 30 quest instead, where you'll do Stages 3 & 4.
Nella and Kerning City Citizen's Requests
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Talk to Nella in Kerning City
Request 1: 1000 Mesos, 50 Green Mushroom Caps, 50 Bubbling's Huge Bubbles
Request 2: 5 Processed Woods, 5 Screws
Request 3: 100 Octopus Legs, 1 Pure Water.
Prize 1: 50 Lemons
Prize 2: 100 Cakes
Prize 3: level 20 Gloves for your job
Bubblings are in the Subway in Kerning City. The Bubblings may be difficult to kill. Try this quest at lv 19, maybe even lv 25.
When you complete the first request, talk to Nella repeatedly, don't leave until she gives you the second request. (Just keep clicking on her, don't listen to her lies!)
Talk to JM From Tha Streetz and select 'Create Materials' to find out how to make Processed Wood and Screws. You probably won't have the materials to make screws, so either do John's Flower Quest to get 30 screws, or buy them off people for 1.5k or 2k each.
Talk to Nella repeatedly after completing the second request.
Pure Water can be bought at Sleepywood or 24Hr Shop in the Ant Tunnel. Octos can be found at both Kerning City Construction Sites and near the Kerning City Entrance to the Dungeon Forest.
When you reach lv 25, Nella will have 3 more requests for you.
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7 CLOSING
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I hope this FAQ answered your questions and that you gained a lot of good tips to get you started. Please tell your friends about this FAQ ;)
Feel free to email me and please tell me where you found my guide.
Have fun playing Maple!
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This is a general FAQ to help you settle into the Maple Story world. It answers alot of FAQs that newbies are always asking in the game. And it contains explanations and tips on things you'll need to know for lv 1-20
I played Maple Story for about 5 months, but I've quit because I'm so busy with uni work and other commitments. I had a lot of fun and this guide should still be relevant for quite some time. I hope you find it useful.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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0 GET THE RIGHT START
1 CREATING YOUR CHARACTER
1.1 Statistics
2 PLAYING THE GAME
2.1 Basic Controls
2.2 First Few Steps
2.3 Items
2.4 Hunting
3 VICTORIA ISLAND
3.1 First Job Advancement
4 PARTIES
4.1 Creating Parties
4.2 Party Experience
5 GENERAL TIPS
5.1 Sleepywood, Ant Tunnel, Ossyria And Florina Beach
5.2 Hunting Effectively
5.3 Return Scrolls
5.4 Fame
5.5 Trading
6 QUEST ADVICE
6.1 Beginners
6.2 Level 15+
7 CLOSING
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Frequently Asked Questions Section
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How Do You Make A Girl Char? 1.0
Which Stats For Job Advancement? 1.1
Which Stats For Later? 1.1
Where Did You Get That Hat? (Maple Island) 2.2
Where Did You Get That Weapon? (Maple Island) 2.2
What Are Ores For? 2.3
How Much Are Screws? 2.3
How Do You Get Out Of Here? (VIP Taxi) 3.1
Where Do You Go? (for job advancement) 3.1
Can Someone Spare 3k? (weapons and armour) 3.1
How Should I Spend My Skill Points? 3.1
How Do You Use Skills? 3.1
How Do You Throw Stars? 3.1
What Is Fame For? 5.4
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0. GET THE RIGHT START
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To get the right start you have to think ahead, decide which job you will take before creating your character. To make this FAQ compact, job descriptions are not included. Refer to the official Maple Story website for job information and skills.
Warriors will level fast as Beginners, but in later levels (15-27 approx)
Warriors level up slower than other jobs.
Thieves will level normally as Beginners, but in later levels (15-27 approx)
Thieves level-up slower than other jobs (unless they have good stars).
Bowmen will level normally as Beginners.
Magicians will level slowly as Beginners, but after becoming a Magician and learning a few skills (claw lv 9 for example) they will level quite fast. Magicians are quite powerful in the first and most of the second job, however in the third job, I've heard that the other classes are stronger
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1. YOUR CHARACTER
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For each account, three characters can be made in each server. These characters share a common storage (or bank). And so items and mesos (money) can be safely transferred from character to character, if the characters are in the same server.
Each server has the same maps and monsters, but sometimes they have different events (Check the website for notices). Unfortunately a character created in one server cannot exist in another server. However each server usually has 20 Channels each, and your character can easily switch from channel to channel within the same server.
If you want to delete a character, you have to remember the birthday that you put in you sign-up. To change your password, you need your last name.
How Do You Make A Girl Char?
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Your character will be the same gender as what you put in your sign-up. It can't be changed.
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1.1 Statistics
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TIP - It is important to know which stats to increase. Otherwise, you may find that you don't have the required statistics to wear your armour or weapons in the HIGHER LEVELS. I made this mistake and wasn't able to wear my proper armour at level 20 because I didn't have enough STR as a Warrior. And at level 30 I didn't have enough LUK as a Bandit to wear my dagger.
Which Stats For Job Advancement?
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Warrior level 10 35 STR
Thief level 10 25 DEX
Bowman level 10 25 DEX
Magician level 8 20 INT
Which Stats For Later?
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Warrior STR and DEX (more STR)
Thief LUK and DEX (more LUK) **
Bowman DEX and STR (much more DEX)
Magician INT and LUK (much more INT)
Each job only needs to apply Ability Points (AP) to only two types of Abilities as shown above. For example, if you are a Warrior, don't place any AP into LUK or INT.
Magicians, if you keep missing monsters, do not put any AP into DEX,put it into INT to increase your accuracy.
Thieves do not need strength, unless they are STR Bandits. LUK Bandits use daggers that require no STR, while STR Bandits use daggers that require a small amount of STR. If you are unsure, you can put 10 points into STR by level 20 and see if you like being a STR Bandit.
AP can also be used to increase HP and MP. I suggest not doing this. HP and MP will increase with every level-up without you adding AP to it.
Rolling The Stats Die
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TIP - Before creating your character, make sure it has good stats. If it hasn't got stats that you are pleased with, you can click on the red die to get new stats.
Good stats would have 4 or 5 in the abilities that your job doesn't need. But if you can't get good stats, it's OK. But since you can roll the die as many times as you like, you may as well try a few times.
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2 PLAYING THE GAME
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2.1 Basic controls
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Switching Channels Press Menu, Change Channels Chat Box Make sure you press the little '+' sign at the bottom centre of your screen to see what has been said more clearly Healing Find a safe place and stand still for awhile Recovering MP MP regenerates automatically. Pick up items Press Z World Map Press W Inventory Press I Statistics (AP) Press S
For more controls click on your Key Settings at the bottom right of screen. My favourite control is F5.
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2.2 First Few Steps
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In the first screen, you will see two Non-Player Characters (NPCs). Talk to Heena, she will explain BASIC MOVEMENT. She will ask you to do something, say YES.
This is a quest, you don't have to complete it, but if you do, you will be rewarded. In this case, the reward will be 1 experience point. It never hurts to say YES to a quest so always say YES.
If you accepted the quest, don't press up at the portal (the place with the glowing light from the ground). Talk to Sera, she will give you a mirror. Then go talk to Heena, she will take you to the next screen/map.
In the 2nd screen, a creepy looking guy called Roger will take away some of your health! Press I to open your Inventory, click the USE tab, then double-click the Apple. Talk to Roger again, he'll give you 3 Red Potions. You can HotKey the potions by dragging them from your Inventory into one of your Quick Slot keys (bottom right corner of your screen).
In the 3rd screen there's another simple quest. In the 4th screen talk to Peter, he'll give you some experience.
Where Did You Get That Hat?
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Soon you will see Maria, she'll give you an easy quest, if you complete her quest she'll give you a hat (a bandana or skullcap).
Where Did You Get That Weapon?
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Talk to Biggs in South Perry, You'll need 30 Blue Snail Shells and 10 Orange Mushroom Caps. If you complete this quest, you will receive a lv 5 Razor, or a lv 8 Fruits Dagger.
For Orange Mushroom Caps, go to the map to the right side of Amherst. At the top centre of this map you will be able to kill the Orange Mushrooms easily by standing on the centre platform, where you can attack the Mushrooms without being hit by them. Magicians can skip this quest if it is too hard.
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2.3 Items
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Pick up everything especially mesos, ores, potions, armor and weapons. Items such as Snail Shells, Mushroom Spores and Mushroom Caps can be sold to any store for mesos. Arrows are worth 0 mesos to stores, so you may as well pick them up and give them to an archer later when you reach Victoria Island.
What Are Ores For?
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Ores are used in creating Jewels or metal Plates, which are used to create items later in the game. Keep all the ores you find and talk to the NPCs in Victoria Island to find out which ores you will need later to make items. All other ores you may either keep or sell to other players.
Picking Up Items
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When you kill a monster, YOU are the only person who can pick up the items that the monster drops after it dies. If you don't pick up the items after about 10 seconds, ANYBODY may pick up the items. And if you drop an item from your Inventory, anybody can pick it up and you shouldn't expect to get it back.
When two or more people help kill a monster, usually the person who killed it the most is allowed to pick up the items. The other person won't be able to pick up the item unless it has been left there for about 10 seconds.
Looting
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When you see someone busily killing monsters and not picking up their items for a long time, after about 10 seconds, anyone can pick up those items, looting is when someone else picks up those items.
Looting is ok when a person is only interested in gaining exp. and not money. If you never see them picking up items, even after you have picked up a few of their items, then there is no problem. If you start picking up some items and the person killing, also begins picking up the items, then you should stop, and let them get their items.
Once, a Beginner accused me of looting from her when she helped me kill a monster. I didn't loot from her, the item belonged to me. If she had killed the monster completely, then I wouldn't have been able to pick up the item so soon after the monster died, if the item had belonged to her... NOOB
How Much Are Screws? (as of July 2005)
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These prices are from what I have seen in Scania, they are the usual amount other players in Victoria Island are willing to pay for these items. NOTE: The prices may change.
Ores 1k (1000 mesos).
Steel Ores 1k, sometimes 1.5k or 2k.
Diamond Ores 7k sometimes 3k sometimes 10k
Gold Ores 10k
Black Crystal Ores (BC) 13k sometimes 15k
Screws 1.5 - 2k each
Leather 150 - 200 mesos each
Item Library
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The Item Library on the official websites don't really cut it. For a detailed item, monster, quest and map library, visit www.hidden-street.net
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2.4 Hunting
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Beginners that plan to become Magicians should hunt in the Snail Hunting Ground I or II on Maple island, this map is full of Green and Blue Snails. Probably best to stay here until you reach level 8. You can do Maria's Hat quest and then come back to this map to level up. I suggest not doing Biggs quest because it will take a long time to collect the items for someone so physically weak. But of course if you really want to do it, no problem.
If you find it hard to level-up, keep killing those Green and Blue Snails.
Monsters In Maple Island
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Name HP EXP. Advice
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Green Snails 8 3 Great for Beginners and Magicians
Blue Snails 15 4 Great for Everyone
Shroom 20 5 Great for Everyone
Red Snails 45 8 Beginner Magicians shouldn't waste
time on these
Orange Mushrooms 80 15 These are tough for Beginners,
you'll kill 4 Blue Snails faster
for MORE exp. AND THEY MOVE FAST.
You'll find a lot of these to the
right of Amherst
Other Easy Monsters In Victoria Island
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Name HP EXP. Advice
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Stump 65 8 Easier to just kill 2 Blue Snails,
(unless you can kill in 3-5 shots
it's not worth going for)
Slime 50 10 They move fast
Pig 75 15 They move fast
Dark stump 250 18 They move slow
Ribbon Pig 120 20 They move fast
Kill Stealing
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Kill Stealing (KS or ksing) is when someone weak is trying to kill a monster to gain exp. and a stronger player will come and kill it and steal exp. It's not such a problem in Maple Island because everyone is a Beginner, so this is a good place to train.
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3. VICTORIA ISLAND
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You can leave Maple Island anytime you like. You'll need 150 mesos for the ship ride from South Perry. When you leave you won't be able to come back.
Maple Island is a nice place to level-up. I suggest leveling here or near Lith Harbour until you are ready for your job advancement. Places near Henesys are also good for Beginners to train.
I suggest not exploring the other towns while you are a Beginner and a newbie, go level up and get a job first, then go exploring. (Beginners wanting to become Magicians will not train as fast near Perion, Ellinia or Kerning, unless they stick to Green snails, because Slimes(50HP) and
Stumps(65HP) take forever to kill when you are doing 1-3 damage).
When you die, if you have a job, you'll lose about 5-10% exp. and you'll be transported to the nearest Town. If you have your Mini Map extended you'll be able to see an icon. The icon represents the nearest town.
Talk to every NPC that you see, this way you will probably find out if they are useful to you. For example some NPCs synthesize items, refine ores, store things, process wood, create screws, create arrows or give quests.
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WARNING TO BEGINNERS IN LITH HARBOUR and ELLINIA
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How Do You Get Out Of Here? What Is This Place?
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Do not take a ride in the black VIP TAXI to the Ant Tunnel. You will end up in a place not for Beginners at all. When you die (There's no way you won't die), you'll find yourself in Sleepywood, the town in the Dungeon. To get out of here, you'll have to buy a Return Scroll to Lith Harbour from someone for 500 - 1000 meso. Even if someone is nice enough to give you a scroll for free, you'll have wasted 1000 mesos on the VIP TAXI ... DONT TAKE THE TAXI. I don't know why they allow Beginners to have a discount on this Taxi, it just means a lot of confusion.
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3.1 First Job Advancement: Where Do You Go?
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After you have trained to the required level, talk to the ticket guy in Lith Harbour or a white Taxi in another town, he will take you to the town you need to go to, for 80 - 120 mesos (very cheap discount price for Beginners only).
---Warriors--- at Perion, go to the very top of the map and enter the portal talk to the NPC Dances with Balrog.
---Thieves--- at Kerning City, enter the Jazz Bar in the centre of the map, go down the ladder and talk to the NPC Dark Road.
---Bowmen--- at Henesys, near the centre of the map, enter the park and go to the far right and enter the building to talk to the NPC Athena Pierce.
---Magicians--- at Ellinia, go to the very top and enter the portal and talk to the NPC Grendel the Really Old.
Buying Weapons And Clothes: Can Someone Spare 3k?
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When you make your job advancement, you should buy new armour in your home town. By this level, you will probably not have enough mesos to buy everything you want, so deal with it :/ you have a job, go earn the money!
Firstly buy a new weapon, then topwear and bottomwear, if you have enough mesos, buy a hat and then shoes. If you can't afford everything, don't worry, you really only need the new weapon. If you can't afford that, you probably didn't pick up all the mesos that your monsters dropped did you? Well in that case, you've just got to fight some more monsters with what you have until you have enough mesos.
Don't Beg. You are a Beginner (or were), of course you're poor! You have to work at your job to become rich. This game can be challenging, but it's not too hard, so don't be LAZY go hunt some monsters to find some money and gain exp. And while you're at it meet some players and have fun.
How Should I Spend My Skill Points?
TIP - By the time you reach your second job advancement, you will not have received enough Skill Points (SP) to master all the skills available to you. So, you'll have to spend those points wisely. Find an In-Depth FAQ for your job to find out how to spend your SP.
How Do You Use Skills?
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Press K to spend your skill point. If you use your Skill Point on a skill that uses MP, drag the Icon into one of your Hot Keys, or open your Key Settings and drag it into there.
How Do You Throw Stars?
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You must be a Thief and you need to wear a Claw. The first claw is called a Garnier and can be bought from the Kerning City Weapon Store. Buy some Subi Throwing stars from the guy selling armour. Now you can throw stars using your attack button.
If you are too close to a monster, you will punch it instead of throwing a star at it (I find this annoying). Punching will do very little damage.
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4. PARTIES
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4.1 Creating Parties
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Once you get a job, you will be able to create a party.
- Press R
- click on the 'Party' tab
- click 'Create'
- Right-Click on a person
- Select 'View Info'
- Click 'Invite Party' once
There can be up to 6 people in a party. To leave your party, click Leave. You will not be able to invite someone who is already in a party. They will have to leave their party before joining yours.
Party Chat
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When you are in a party, press 2 to talk to members in you party. The chat text will appear in pink. You will be able to talk to members that are in different maps or channels. Press 1 to talk to everyone again.
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4.2 Party Experience
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Generally:
- Experience is shared among all party members that are in the same map.
- If you kill a monster you will get more exp. than the other party members will get for that kill.
- Higher level members will receive more exp than the lower level members.
In parties, mesos are shared but items are not. Items can be picked up by anyone in a party.
Pan2005: Mesos In A Party - For 2 Members --> 60% For Collector & 40% For Other Member. For more than 2, the ratio will be a bit different, but still, the Collector will be getting most.
One problem with parties is who gets to keep that rare piece of armour worth 50k? The person who killed the monster that dropped it? Sure, but what if they helped you kill it? I was once in a party where I completely killed the monster that dropped the rare item and I managed to pick up the item too, but the other party member begged me if they could have it. I personally don't like parties, but they are useful sometimes. You don't need to join parties to make friends though, just start talking to people.
Party Experience Example 1
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Let’s say we have a 2-person party with 2 lv 10 players. Slimes give 10 exp. if you kill them completely by yourself. In a party if you kill a Slime, you'll get something like 6 exp. while the other member in the party will get 4 exp.
Party Experience Example 2
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Another 2-person party, 1 person lv 35 the other lv 8. If the lv 35 kills a Green Mushroom, they will get the entire 26 exp. points and the lv 8 will get 0 exp. If the lv 35 kills a Slime, they get 9 exp. and the lv 8 will get 1 exp.
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5. GENERAL TIPS
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5.1 Sleepywood, Ant Tunnel, Ossyria And Florina Beach
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Sleepywood is in the Dungeon, the easiest way is to walk from Henesys. But I recommend being level 17-20 before visiting. Make sure you have a Return Scroll to Henesys or some other town before you go, just incase you find the place too tough for you to get out again. Sleepywood Return Scrolls can be bought in the Sauna in the Hotel in Sleepywood.
To walk to Sleepywood from Henesys, take the top right portal at Henesys to get onto Warning Street. Keep traveling right, and avoid the dangerous monsters at the bottom of those pits. Eventually you'll find Luke the Security Guy, take the portal that he's standing near. You'll enter a Forest, here the top portal will take you towards Kerning City and Perion, while the middle portal will be Sleepywood. Don't take the bottom portal unless you are lv 25+ because there are Curse Eyes here. Also, the bottom portal is one of those tricky portals, like a Pig Beach, where the only way to get back, is to travel through the map and reach another portal.
Ant Tunnel is just right of Sleepywood. The monsters are tough here for low level players.
Ossyria is another place and the website suggests that you be lv 35, this is a good guideline. But if you want to visit out of curiosity I recommend lv 25+, but the monsters will be tough! You can go there from Ellinia, it cost 5k and make sure you have 5k to get back. Bring lots of potions to go exploring. Since MP pots are slightly cheaper in Ellinia, don't forget to stock-up before leaving to Ossy.
Tip from lilkrndude146: The armour and weapon shop in El Nath (a town in Ossyria) is expensive for some items. You'll probably do better buying the items off other players back in Victoria Island. Hopefully by the time you reach the levels to be buying this stuff, you'll have some experience in buying and trading items off other players (at sensible prices).
Florina Beach is a little island with tough monsters. It cost 1k to get there from Lith Harbour. You'll need 1k to get back.
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5.2 Hunting Effectively
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If you like fighting in crowded places where the monsters re-spawn quickly, fight monsters that only need 1-2 shots to kill (maybe 3). If you take any longer you'll become surrounded by too many monsters.
If you like less crowded places, where there's only you or one other person, there will be less monsters. This will mean more walking, but you can kill the monsters slower, so go for monsters that die in 2-4 shots. - Warriors and Bandit Thieves may like to kill monsters that take up to 6 shots.
To level-up faster, use potions (pots). Less waiting will mean more killing and more exp. Make sure you pick up all your items and mesos if you can't afford pots. On the other hand, if you're using pots up like crazy, and you don't seem to be making a profit, you're fighting the wrong monsters (or you're just crap :P) - MP pots are slightly cheaper in Ellinia.
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5.3 Return Scrolls: Selling All Town Scrolls 1k
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Return Scrolls, are great and are much cheaper than a Taxi (unless you're still a Beginner). After getting your first job, and acquiring some money, walk around Victoria Island and visit all the towns and buy a Return scroll from each town. On the way, you can explore, try to find hidden portals and kill a few new monsters.
Return Scrolls cost 500 mesos at shops. And they can be used in almost all maps, so they are more convenient than taxis.
Taxis are not available in Sleepywood. So buy a Return Scroll before visiting, otherwise you may have to pay 1k to buy one off someone. I used to always be in Sleepywood selling Return Scrolls for 1k =) .
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5.4 Fame: What Is Fame For?
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Fame is used for higher levels. There is a quest at level 30 that requires 10 fame, and some high-level armour requires a certain amount of fame to wear. If you're poor, don't bother trying to buy fame, you don't need it yet. Save your money for armour or potions.
from Pan2005: The kinds of equipment that use fame are usually black or are called Dark 'something'.
You can't fame someone until you're lv 15. You can only use your fame once a day. And you can only fame the same person once a month.
Higher-level players like to buy fame. They may offer you 1 - 6k for your fame. If you need money, sell your fame. Currently the normal price for fame is 5k. People may also offer items for fame such as 20 leathers or 4 ores.
To fame someone for items or money, right-click them and select 'View Info', then press 'Request Trade'. Keep the Info box open. When they accept your trade, and agree to give you the money or items for your fame, you click the Orange Up Arrow to increase their fame, while the trade box is still open. Then they will give you your money. Press the Orange 'Trade' button to accept their money or items
Fame nor LUK has nothing to do with rare item drops.
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5.5 Trading
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To request a trade with someone right-click them and View Info, click on 'Request Trade'.
If someone requests a Trade with you, be nice and say 'Hi' or 'Hello'. Responding with 'Yes?' or 'What?' just seems rude to me.
Good places to buy or sell items are at towns. The best town for this is Perion. Visit Perion Channel 1 for the biggest market, here it may be hard to click on people, so instead type '/trade username' to trade with someone.
Visit Perion Channel 1 and just watch everybody trade. Sometimes you'll see the prices of various items. Occasionally these prices will be over the top. But just watch for a few minutes while you regain your health and you will learn alot about trading and prices. It's not a bad idea to do this every now and again after you reach lv 30. If Perion Channel 1 is too full, try
Channel 2.
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6 QUEST ADVICE
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After you've done these quests, there are plenty more which are only accessible by reaching a certain level. Visit www.maplesea.com for more quests (shows more quests than mapleglobal).
Strangely, all these quests are pretty hard for the level that you can begin them at, except John's quest. For all the others, you'll have to level-up alot more to finish them without help. You'll probably be lv 25+ when you finish all of them... :/
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6.1 Quests For Beginners
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Fixing Blackbull's House
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Talk to Blackbull in Perion.
Items Needed: 30 Branches, 50 Firewoods.
Prize: lv 15 Steel Shield (most times) or a lv 25 Triangular Shield.
Branches will be easy to get from Stumps. Firewood can be found from Axe Stumps and Dark Axe Stumps. Don't go for the Dark Axe Stumps they have 550 HP. If you're a warrior, try this quest at lv 14, so that you have a shield for lv 15. All other classes, don't worry about this quest until you can kill Axe Stumps easily.
The shields can only be used by Warriors. If you're not a warrior, you can sell the lv 15 shield to a shop for 3k. The lv 25 shield should be sold to a warrior because it can't be bought from any store in Victoria Island.
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6.2 Quests For Level 15+
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Maya and the Weird Medicine
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Talk to Maya in the Mushroom House in Henesys
Needed: 20 Octo Legs, 50 Squishy Liquids, 50 Leaves, 40 Charms of Undead
Prize: level 25 Brown Bamboo Hat
Since you can't use the prize until lv 25, you can take your time.
You'll need to travel a lot for this quest, Maya will want you to get Medicine by talking to Teo in Lith Harbour, He'll tell you to go see someone else and so on ... :/ Octos are found near Kerning City, Leaves are dropped by Dark Stumps found near Perion, Squishy Liquid dropped by Slimes. Charms of Undead are dropped by Undead Mushrooms found in the Ant Tunnel in the Dungeon, they are not easy to kill by low-level players.
Luke the Security Guy
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Talk to Luke at the Entrance to the Dungeon from Henesys.
Items Needed: 1 Bowl of Salad, 10 Stirge Wings, 100 Jr. Necki Skins
Prize: 1 Refined Jewel at random (Diamond if you're lucky)
This quest is tough! There is no time limit on quests. Most Magicians, Thieves, Bowmen can't hit the Jr. Necki until lv 27+. Warriors will have to wait even longer.
Jr Neckis are little green snakes, found in the Subway, Sewer, and in some parts of the Dungeon. Stirges are purple bats found in the Subway and Deep Ant Tunnel. Bowl of Salad can be bought (A Use Item) from the 24Hr Shop in the Deep Ant Tunnel.
John's Pink Flower Basket
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Talk to John in Lith Harbour
Items Needed: at least 10 Pink Viola Flowers
Prize: 30 Screws
This is the first of MANY jumping quests. If you can become good at this quest, you'll be able to do all the other jumping quests. So have patience and practice a lot, when you get tired, take a break, fight some monsters, then practice some more. Pink Viola's can't be traded.
Buy a couple of Return Scrolls to Lith Harbour at Lith Harbour. Go to Sleepywood, then buy some Sleepywood Return Scrolls from the Sauna and talk to the Mysterious Statue. After getting the flowers (double-click on them), scroll back to Lith, give the flowers to John. If you didn't get 10 flowers, scroll back to Sleepywood and do it again. NOTE: buying the Scrolls is optional, you can walk if you're too tight!
After you complete the quest, you can go to the Mysterious Statue and do the jumping quest again and again. Each time you reach the flowers you'll randomly receive 2 mineral ores (no gold).
When you reach lv 30, you'll no longer be able to receive the 2 ores from the Forest of Patience Stages 1 & 2. You'll have to do John's lv 30 quest instead, where you'll do Stages 3 & 4.
Nella and Kerning City Citizen's Requests
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Talk to Nella in Kerning City
Request 1: 1000 Mesos, 50 Green Mushroom Caps, 50 Bubbling's Huge Bubbles
Request 2: 5 Processed Woods, 5 Screws
Request 3: 100 Octopus Legs, 1 Pure Water.
Prize 1: 50 Lemons
Prize 2: 100 Cakes
Prize 3: level 20 Gloves for your job
Bubblings are in the Subway in Kerning City. The Bubblings may be difficult to kill. Try this quest at lv 19, maybe even lv 25.
When you complete the first request, talk to Nella repeatedly, don't leave until she gives you the second request. (Just keep clicking on her, don't listen to her lies!)
Talk to JM From Tha Streetz and select 'Create Materials' to find out how to make Processed Wood and Screws. You probably won't have the materials to make screws, so either do John's Flower Quest to get 30 screws, or buy them off people for 1.5k or 2k each.
Talk to Nella repeatedly after completing the second request.
Pure Water can be bought at Sleepywood or 24Hr Shop in the Ant Tunnel. Octos can be found at both Kerning City Construction Sites and near the Kerning City Entrance to the Dungeon Forest.
When you reach lv 25, Nella will have 3 more requests for you.
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7 CLOSING
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I hope this FAQ answered your questions and that you gained a lot of good tips to get you started. Please tell your friends about this FAQ ;)
Feel free to email me and please tell me where you found my guide.
Have fun playing Maple!
Saturday, 3 October 2009
Basic Maplestory Beginners' Help
Are you a noob on Maplestory? Well, don't worry. Everyone was once. Here is a guide that covers the basics on Maplestory.
Downloading the Game
To play Maplestory, you must have a Windows XP or Vista (although XP works better) and about 1G space.
Go to the Maplestory website. Click on North America (Global). On the left-hand side, there is a box that says "Free! Maplestory DOWNLOAD". Click on that. On the screen, there is a "Beginner Version". To me, that version is really pointless. So scroll down and click the "download" button that is under "Full Version". Click on save and name the file. The download usually takes a while, depending on the type of computer you have, but if you are impatient, download the RAR version. Click on each "part" and name each and save them. Each one takes about 2-3 minutes.
Make a Username and a Password:
Since the downloading takes a long time, this would be a good time to make your own character. Go to the Maplestory website and click Maplesotyr North America. Click on sign up and make your character. Remember your username and password.
Installation
After the downloading is complete, go to My Computer. Look for your saved file again. Double click on Maplestory Installation. I'm pretty sure you know what to do after this. It takes a while to explain it, so if you don't, go to another guide.
Log In
After the installation, there should be a shortcut on your desktop that goes to Maplestory. Double click on this. A window should pop up. At the bottom of this window, click "play". Wait for it to load. At the log in screen, type in your username and password and click on "log in". Make your own pin number, one that you can remember and isn't too obvious. After that, click on one of the worlds at the top of the screen. Scania is the one with the most people, so if you have a slow computer, I wouldn't suggest that one. Bera is a fairly good one, and so is Windia. After you choose, click on a channel. The meters show how full the channel is, so pick a channel that has a low meter.
Make Your Character
Now you get to make your character. Click on the "Create Character" sign. Pick male or female. Choose the outfit, hair, etc. When you have to choose the weapon, the axe is the best because it does the most dammage. Make a name for your character. On the right hand side is a dice. The dice determines what you want to be. The choices are thief, magician, bowman, and warrior. THIS PART IS VERY IMPORTANT!!! If you want to be a thief, roll the dice until you have a 4 or a five under int and a four or a five under strength. The rest is unimportant. If you want to be a magician, roll the dice until you have a four or a five under strength and a four or a five under dex. If you want to be a bowman, roll the dice until you have a four or a five under int and a four or a five under luk. If you want to be a warrior, roll the dice until you have a four or a five under luk and a four or a five under dex. Be patient. This determines how strong you will be. Again, THIS VERY IMPORTANT!!! Once you get what you want, click Create. Now you will be back at the character screen. Click on the sign post that says select character.
Congratulations! You can officially start playing.
Downloading the Game
To play Maplestory, you must have a Windows XP or Vista (although XP works better) and about 1G space.
Go to the Maplestory website. Click on North America (Global). On the left-hand side, there is a box that says "Free! Maplestory DOWNLOAD". Click on that. On the screen, there is a "Beginner Version". To me, that version is really pointless. So scroll down and click the "download" button that is under "Full Version". Click on save and name the file. The download usually takes a while, depending on the type of computer you have, but if you are impatient, download the RAR version. Click on each "part" and name each and save them. Each one takes about 2-3 minutes.
Make a Username and a Password:
Since the downloading takes a long time, this would be a good time to make your own character. Go to the Maplestory website and click Maplesotyr North America. Click on sign up and make your character. Remember your username and password.
Installation
After the downloading is complete, go to My Computer. Look for your saved file again. Double click on Maplestory Installation. I'm pretty sure you know what to do after this. It takes a while to explain it, so if you don't, go to another guide.
Log In
After the installation, there should be a shortcut on your desktop that goes to Maplestory. Double click on this. A window should pop up. At the bottom of this window, click "play". Wait for it to load. At the log in screen, type in your username and password and click on "log in". Make your own pin number, one that you can remember and isn't too obvious. After that, click on one of the worlds at the top of the screen. Scania is the one with the most people, so if you have a slow computer, I wouldn't suggest that one. Bera is a fairly good one, and so is Windia. After you choose, click on a channel. The meters show how full the channel is, so pick a channel that has a low meter.
Make Your Character
Now you get to make your character. Click on the "Create Character" sign. Pick male or female. Choose the outfit, hair, etc. When you have to choose the weapon, the axe is the best because it does the most dammage. Make a name for your character. On the right hand side is a dice. The dice determines what you want to be. The choices are thief, magician, bowman, and warrior. THIS PART IS VERY IMPORTANT!!! If you want to be a thief, roll the dice until you have a 4 or a five under int and a four or a five under strength. The rest is unimportant. If you want to be a magician, roll the dice until you have a four or a five under strength and a four or a five under dex. If you want to be a bowman, roll the dice until you have a four or a five under int and a four or a five under luk. If you want to be a warrior, roll the dice until you have a four or a five under luk and a four or a five under dex. Be patient. This determines how strong you will be. Again, THIS VERY IMPORTANT!!! Once you get what you want, click Create. Now you will be back at the character screen. Click on the sign post that says select character.
Congratulations! You can officially start playing.
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